It would 'have been better' to have tested 60,000 nursing homes sooner, admits Taoiseach

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has admitted that it would “have been better” to have tested 60,000 nursing home patients and staff sooner for Covid-19, but said the scale of the challenge facing the country has been extraordinary.
It would 'have been better' to have tested 60,000 nursing homes sooner, admits Taoiseach
Mon, 20 Apr, 2020 - 18:23

By Daniel McConnell and Aoife Moore

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has admitted that it would “have been better” to have tested 60,000 nursing home patients and staff sooner for Covid-19, but said the scale of the challenge facing the country has been extraordinary.

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